Julián Posada
@posada.website
💼 Assistant Professor @Yale.edu 📖 Author of “Platform Extractivism” (UC Press, 2026) 🎓 Research on #AI + #Data + #Work + #Platforms 🌐 https://posada.website/
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UT President interfering with faculty tenure. Just the latest egregious example of administrator overreach and political capitulation. Non-paywall follows.
UT border surveillance scholar was a shoo-in for tenure. UT denied him.
American Studies scholar Iván Chaar López fears UT’s unexplained tenure denial violated his academic freedom amid scrutiny of controversial fields.
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“Duguid was inundated with messages from people sharing their anger about automated AI-driven recruitment processes that they believe screen out older candidates. Following their advice, Duguid’s “newly botoxed CV” no longer displays her age” www.ft.com/content/b4bc...
Ageism: the silent but deadly threat to your retirement
For Gen X, financial planning needs to involve career planning
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Pleased to support Mayor Mamdani's PIT Crew initiative. Done right, digital government saves people time and money. Done wrong, it can be costly, useless, or discriminatory. How a city interacts with its people shouldn't be outsourced. It should be local and accountable. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
Mayor Mamdani Launches "Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crew" to Rapidly Build Digital Solutions to Public Problems
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It's not OK to wear smart glasses around other people. It's not cool. It's creepy, disrespectful. It pollutes the public sphere with the oppression of surveillance. It puts the onus on non-Glassholes; that's not asking for consent. www.vogue.com/article/do-s...
Do Smart Glasses Have a Surveillance Problem?
Big Tech is investing in fashion’s cultural legitimacy to make AI smart glasses socially acceptable, but consumers view them as synonymous with surveillance. Is removing the camera the key to adoption...
vogue.com
Great paper by a 🌟 group ( @posada.website) that shows the "annotation pipeline as a site of epistemic contestation" & how 'ground truth' is "a sociotechnical artifact manufactured through a sequence of deliberate & often invisible choices," including labor conditions dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
“Broken Bones, Lawsuits, and NDAs: Inside the Worker Safety Concerns at Stargate Data Center” via Time Magazine time.com/article/2026...
Broken Bones, Lawsuits, and NDAs: Inside the Worker Safety Concerns at Stargate Data Center
A TIME investigation—drawing on government reports, court documents, 911 calls, and worker interviews—uncovers safety concerns at the flagship site of the $500 billion AI infrastructure project.
time.com
Local UNICEF teams are on the ground working to deliver urgent, lifesaving support to children and families after powerful, back-to-back earthquakes hit northern #Venezuela on Wednesday. Here's what you need to know, including how to help:
Venezuela Earthquakes: Children Need Help Now
UNICEF is providing emergency support for children and families affected by a pair of deadly earthquakes in northern Venezuela.
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From @ucpress.bsky.social: Increase in Scams Targeting Authors. I received many of these emails already. Don't fall for it! www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/i...
Increase in Scams Targeting Authors
With the rise of AI-powered scams, we've witnessed a surge of scammers specifically targeting book authors. Here's what you need to be on the lookout for as an author.
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For $7 an hour, virtual assistants in the Philippines are using AI to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives, fueling a "thought leadership" content mill https://restofworld.org/2026/virtual-assistant-linkedin-engagement/?utm_campaign=row-social
The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn’s “thought leadership” content mill
For $7 an hour, virtual assistants use AI tools to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives.
restofworld.org
My overall impression is the gov realizes they have to regulate, but are nervous about scaring investment away. The result is a non-committal scaffold for maybe-stronger-regulation-later that creates uncertainty for both concerned citizens & businesses looking for clear signal of regulatory intent
Lots to digest here but one piece that sticks out is the proposed regulatory framework is mostly voluntary and opaque. Hinges on voluntary certification and selective safety partnerships & evaluations behind closed doors without clear public oversight mechanisms www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...
Prime Minister Carney launches AI for All: Canada’s new national artificial intelligence strategy
Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, launched AI for All, Canada’s new national AI strategy. Over the next five years, this strategy will introduce new legislation, investments, and programs that e...
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NEW: A @wired.com analysis of Meta's app for its smart glasses found that the company has been adding code for face recognition since January, while saying that it is still "thinking through" whether to deploy it. @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-s...
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
wired.com
“Now, humans are directly guiding robots through expensive rigs that let them control the robots’ movements. Data collected using robot arms offer richer insights into motor skills and object manipulation. Encord charges clients up to $1,000 per hour for training data.”
The robot puppeteers of Silicon Valley teaching humanoids how to make your morning coffee
As Californian companies race to manufacture and deploy thousands of humanoid robots in the coming year, another new class of worker has been born
latimes.com
𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐨 𝐗𝐈𝐕'𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥, 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐬, offers a timely and critical reflection on the societal risks posed by artificial intelligence. It's arguments resonate with many of the findings and arguments in our field of research, including several points I make in 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎 𝑬𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒎🧵1/5
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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"Technology is not simply a tool. When it becomes the standard by which everything is judged, it begins to dictate what matters and what can be discarded, reducing creation to an object of exploitation and human beings to mere cogs in a system driven toward ever greater efficiency." - Pope Leo (92)
"We must avoid the 'Babel syndrome,' the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance."
Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________
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“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Dune (1965) Frank Herbert
Tech Policy Press fellow Petra Molnar highlights the AI Resist List: a global database documenting acts of resistance to the AI industry. From legal challenges and worker organizing to artistic interventions, the project seeks to challenge the “scale at all costs” development of AI.
The World Is Already Resisting AI. Now, There is a List to Prove It.
Petra Molnar spotlights the launch of the AI Resist List, documenting global challenges to AI expansion.
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SIGGRAPH goes to #FAccT2026! Congrats to my co-authors @posada.website, @avmenon.bsky.social and @bsky.alexaschor.com We analyzed every SIGGRAPH, ToG, and SIGGRAPH Asia paper from 1974-2024 to see how race is imagined in graphics research. The results were not good. arxiv.org/abs/2605.14835 1/
The Racial Character of Computer Graphics Research
Computer graphics algorithms for generating photorealistic imagery are widely perceived to be universal, and capable of conjuring anything that a filmmaker or game designer can imagine. However, recen...
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Behind every AI answer. Every filtered feed. Every recommendation that knows you a little too well. There are people. Millions of data workers—annotators, content moderators, AI trainers—whose labor makes the AI economy run. techequity.us/ai-supply-ch...
Tackling the AI supply chain - TechEquity Collaborative
From the USA to Kenya, workers fuel multi-billion-dollar AI systems, but many face precarious employment and low wages.
techequity.us
📣 At ACM FAccT 2026, we will also publish the paper “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘂𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗽: 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 ‘𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵’ 𝗜𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻,” a collaboration led by Sheza Munir. 🔗 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙚-𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙩: lnkd.in/eSgiy2V8
“That’s why the students are booing, I think. They’re experiencing AI in realtime as a forecloser of futures; as the cruel new face of hyper-scaling capitalism, as the prime agent moving a world that’s become a deck stacked against them.” — @bcmerchant.bsky.social really nails it, as usual
AI as the new avatar of American capitalism
Why "AI populism" is just "populism"
bloodinthemachine.com
Check out our new work! With @theodore-kim.bsky.social @posada.website and Alexa Schor!
Julián Posada@posada.website · 3mo ago🚨 Our new paper, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝, co-authored with @yale.edu colleagues, Theodore Kim, Alexa Schor, and @avmenon.bsky.social, will be published at @facct.bsky.social 2026. 🔗 Read the preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2605.14835
🚨 Our new paper, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝, co-authored with @yale.edu colleagues, Theodore Kim, Alexa Schor, and @avmenon.bsky.social, will be published at @facct.bsky.social 2026. 🔗 Read the preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2605.14835
Join @dairinstitute.bsky.social and workers on the front line of resisting AI as we release the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a new resource for fighting AI at work. 9 AM PT / Noon ET / 4 PM GMT on Wednesday, May 20 www.eventbrite.com/e/launching-...
Launching the Luddite Lab Resource Hub
Join DAIR and workers on the front line of resisting AI as we release the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a new resource for fighting AI at work.
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In March, Meta said it would "reduce its reliance on third-party vendors for content enforcement." But cutting its contract with Sama, which led to layoffs in Kenya, looks a lot more like Meta “ending the work… [because] it didn't want workers speaking out" www.bbc.com/news/article...
Dispute over fate of Kenyan workers who saw Meta AI glasses films
Meta and its subcontractor disagree over why over 1000 Kenya-based workers were made redundant.
bbc.com
Amazing work from @posada.website and his team putting on the first International Network of Digital Labor conference in North America. I love a little themed conference and it was so cool to have the scientists and the organizers and the lawyers and the advocates in the same room for a day.
